Orbit Quotes - Page 2

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Quentin Crisp

God, Order, Giving

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It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

Arthur C. Clarke

Communication, Science, Years

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One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

Arthur C. Clarke

Communication, Science, Sky

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Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

Arthur C. Clarke

Science, Space, Comfort

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War, Book, Inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Children, Moon, Firsts

The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. March 02, 2009.

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Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

Paul Davies

Jobs, Phases, Earth

"Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

Jamie Ford

Heart, Long, People

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In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nice, Years, Mind Blowing

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One day man will connect his
apparatus to the very wheel work of
the universe. The very forces that
motivate the planets in their orbits
and cause them to rotate will rotate
his own machinery.

Nikola Tesla

Men, One Day, Causes

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Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.
The men who lived with him became
Poets, for the air was fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Air, Poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.240, The Floating Press

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Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Loretta Chase

Moon, Men, Littles

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

Stars, Moon, Heaven

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

Haruki Murakami

Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

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When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

Haruki Murakami

Heart, Two, Solitude

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.129, Random House

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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

Bill Nye

Moon, People, Mars

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Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

Leonard Read

Pressure Groups, Political, Type

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We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

Joan Z. Borysenko

Spiritual, Soul, Ponds

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blow, Air, Order

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology ... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.

Haruki Murakami

Memories, War, Struggle

"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

Baba Amte

Destiny, Weightlessness, Results

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And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

Haruki Murakami

Beautiful, Lonely, Stars

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 06, 2014

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Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Franz Kafka

Two, Tasks, Hiding

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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Poetry is language in orbit.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Poetry, Language

Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

Sallust

Moving, Fire, Air

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